In addition to taking the opportunity to annex the Naito family's power in Nagato Country, Tao Longfang took the initiative to find the Luo family this time and had two purposes.

First, we took the opportunity to alleviate the crisis of famine in the territory. In addition to asking for food from the Luo family, we also threw some hiding people who were displaced due to famine to the Luo family.

The second is to sign an alliance with the Luo family to ensure the stability of the western land border and the southern waters, so that he can free up his hands to resolve the turmoil in the territory and to deal with the invasion of Ji Jianye.

After reading Tao Longfang's letters, Masayoshi had already guessed all these small abacuses. However, if he could get the Toyoura County of Nagato, it would not be a completely bad thing for the Luo family.

Geographically, Nagamon Country is located in the country of Yamayodo, the westernmost end of Honshu. It borders Ishimi Country to the northeast and is adjacent to Zhoufang Country to the southeast. To the south is the Katsumeshi Strait, and the other side is Fengmaki and Juqian Country. The middle position of the country is the westernmost part of the Xiguo Mountains, with Awuchuan, Muyachuan, Houtaka River and Houtaka River flowing through it, forming a relatively large plain area. Especially near the Zhoufang Beach coast between Houtaka and Houtaka River, there is a vast Urono Plain.

Toyoura County is located at the westernmost end of Nagamon Kingdom. To the east are the three counties of Nagamon Kingdom, Mini and Otsu, and to the north, south and west are the sea. As long as you master this county, the Luo family can completely control the western waters such as Xiangtan and Guanmen Strait, so that you can focus on dealing with Iki Island and Tsushima Island in the ground seas.

At the same time, the territory of Fengpu County is mainly based on mountains and forests. All the fields and settlements of the territorial people are concentrated on the coast and along the rivers in the county. However, it is a place that is both easy to manage and defend. Among them, Maruguyama Castle located at the northernmost point of Fengpu County, the mouth of the Rino River and the shore of Yugo Bay. It is the only passage to enter Fengpu County from the coastal area of ​​Otsu County, and it is also an important naval base of Nagato Country on the Xiangtan coast.

Located in the northeast of Toyoura County and standing in the valley alluvialized by the wooden river, Yada Castle (original territory of Aoki Kyoto Takashi, now occupied by the Tao Colonel), is a fortress that controls the entry into Toyoura County from the Mene County in the east and the Otsu County area in the northeast.

Follow the north of Shizuo, the Muya River crossing Toeura-gun, and go down until the entrance to the sea estuary of the Muya River along the coast of Shuibangtan. Here is the Kaya Castle (the castle that Ouchi Yoshinaga was forced to commit suicide by the Mori family). From the east of Kaya Castle, along the coast of Shuibangtan, you will soon see the Urano Plain, the largest plain where Nagato and Shuibangguo are united together.

Since most areas are forests, as long as you control the above-mentioned Maruguyama Castle, Yada Castle, and Yama Castle, the three castles of Yama Castle are equivalent to controlling the land connection between Toyoura County and the rest of the Nagato Country. It is also the only way for the Luo family to invade Nagato Country and Ishimi Country around Nagato Country in the future, and Zhou Dynasty's defense.

Now a choice is in front of Zhengliang. It is to temporarily suspend the strategy of Fengqian Kingdom in the southeast. Taking advantage of this opportunity, with the Tao family being an internal response, take the opportunity to continue to penetrate the Luo family's power into the Nagato country and prepare for the future strategy of the Luo family in the Western Region. It is better to give up this opportunity and take all Fengqian Kingdom and Fengqian Kingdom as soon as possible according to the original plan.

Faced with such an opportunity, Masayora naturally could not be arbitrary, so he summoned more than ten important officials from his family, including Yamamoto Kawasuke, Kakumakuma Shisong, Togo Heiji, and others to discuss.

After some discussion, everyone agreed that the so-called opportunity must not be lost and never come again. It is rare to have the cooperation of the Tao family. At the same time, both the Luo family and the Tao family needed to maintain peace in the border area afterwards, so that the family could also promptly transfer most of the troops of the Nagato country back to Fengqian Country, so everyone agreed to reach an alliance agreement with Tao Longfang. Of course, the Luo family also put forward new requirements on the issue of food and population exchange.

Finally, after some consultation, the Tao family was willing to exchange the land of Fengpu County, Changmen Kingdom and the famine population of 6,000 for the Luo family's covenant and 35,000 stones of food.

As for this part of the famine population that was thrown to the Luo family as a burden, although it will indeed increase the internal burden of the Luo family to a certain extent, the Luo family will need a large number of people to fill the newly occupied areas of Zhuqian and Fengqian countries. On the one hand, it is to make up for the population lost due to natural disasters after this year. On the other hand, it is also to further decompose the control of some local landlords over the local area and allow the Luo family to further strengthen the ruling control of these areas.

As for the food support to Tao Longfang, in Zhengliang's opinion, it would be very cost-effective to exchange 35,000 shi of grain for the Tao family's help when the Luo family went to the Nagatoko countryside, and to exchange for the Tao family's voluntary surrender of the western and northern areas of Fengpu County.

Moreover, Masarara didn't want Tao Long's house to fall so soon. If he fell, the Luo family would face the Mori family of Anyi and the Yoshimi family of Ishimi family in the east and northeast respectively. Moreover, the news from Izumo country that Nizi family also accelerated their strategy for the eastern region of Ishimi family during this period. If the Nizi family took control of Ishimi and then bordered the Luo family territory, even if the two families were allies, it is hard to say whether they could continue to meet as an allies after the death of their common enemy, Ouchi Yoshitaka.

Before completely solving Kyushu, Iki Island and Tsushima Island, Masara really didn't want to fall into the quagmire of the Western Kingdom. Besides, Masara also hoped to use the Tao family as a transitional zone to let Tao Longfang act as the pioneer in dealing with the Maori family and the Nizi family, so Tao Longfang cannot collapse at this time.

In late September of the 21st year of the Astronomy, when the alliance agreement was reached with the Tao family, during this autumn harvest season, the Luo family took military advisor Kakuma Ishisong as the general, and executed the fifth standing football team where Akagi Nagato, Marume Rami, Guemura Moto, and Luo family Shingoro were located as the main force. They joined forces with Ander, Isoro Yoshimi's iron cannon team, Isono Toshima, Akazu Mitsuki, and Tao Nakamoto's first standing horse team, as well as some peasant soldiers, the military power of the Morii family, a total of more than 2,000 people came out of the Naito family's magnificent town of Toyoura County, the southern part of Toyoura County. The first target was Katsuyama Castle, the important town in the southern part of Toyoura County.

The person who was in charge of guarding Katsuyama Castle was Takashi Naito. This guy had never fought against the Luo family army head-on before, so he naturally didn't know how powerful the Luo family army was. Moreover, he just needed to establish military achievements that convinced the family to suppress his uncle Naito Takahira, who was competing for the position of family governor with him. Therefore, despite the advice of some of the retainers who had followed Naito Hiromori and the Luo family army to the warring state, he believed that there were more than 3,000 guards in the Shengshan City, and he actually dispatched more than 2,000 people to go out of the city to fight the Luo family army.
Chapter completed!